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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
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Back in Oz. Missing France :(
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Australia.
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Oh, gosh, this book of mine is going to kill me. It's either going to be a perfect example of the book I've always wanted to write or it's going to be rubbish.
And it's still in plottage. *sigh* ETA: Amazing cover, History! Quite stunning! |
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Researching History's Mysteries
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Thanks guys. My chapters are all laid out. I'll be glad when I'm done with edits. Mccardy, I can relate to the it's killing me state of mind.
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knows a hawk from a handsaw
Join Date: Sep 2008
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HS that is an amazing piece of work. Very thought provoking.
Mccardey you will get there. Honest. You will.
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standing on head, typing one-handed...
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ireland
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Love the cover, HS, very striking and beautifully drawn.
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Now, back to plotting.
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Prague now, Glasgow in November
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Hugs McCardey. Know the feeling. I realised last night that I'm making exactly the same mistakes with this book as I do with all of them, passive characters, not enough feeling, plots that just don't really make sense. I'm about an inch off scrapping the thing. Just don't want to because I love the premise and, even if I can't write them properly, I love the characters.
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The blog for work - ghosts, legends and all manner of things in Prague: McGee's Ghost Tours of Prague Latest post - Underground Prague My story "Full Moon" available here. |
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Noticed something though - it is much nicer writing when you have a little cat cuddled in beside you. My SnowB is seriously becoming a writer cat these days. Always comes over now and sits on the arm of the chair beside me to watch what I'm doing.
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The blog for work - ghosts, legends and all manner of things in Prague: McGee's Ghost Tours of Prague Latest post - Underground Prague My story "Full Moon" available here. |
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knows a hawk from a handsaw
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Sometimes it is nice to be called at very short notice to do some work. The rate of pay was very nice for two hours! Almost the same rate as I would be paid for working 8.30 - 15.30. Drinks are on me!
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Back in Oz. Missing France :(
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Australia.
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Charlie < was my writingdog. Maybe he took all the writingju with him ETA: When I get back from France I'm going to get a writingchicken. I had those before - good for shorter noir-y works. Plus there's eggs. |
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
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Oh you guys, I'm suffering. Tomorrow we're supposed to get the first of back-to-back overnight guests (
I love having guests, but back-to-back?! And I have no idea when the first set is due to arrive. It's a surprise, I guess?). Saturday is the boy's birthday party, here at the house, something like 60 people. That's in addition to the Easter kick-off, etc. I've been working on this weekend for weeks, even months. The boy has a cold. Okay, fine. We can handle that. He should be better by Saturday, right? The girl came home with the stomach flu today. Please shoot me. |
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The Alydar of Writers
Join Date: Feb 2011
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But then there'll be no one to clean the bathroom.
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Back in Oz. Missing France :(
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![]() (But you'll be burning in hell for that. You know that, right?) Jude - sometimes you've just got focus on next
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The Alydar of Writers
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Already there, I think...but:
Stomach flu is the worst, Jude. Please don't get it yourself. Unless...you could use it to ward guests off your house? |
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Researching History's Mysteries
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Ugh Jude, that is awful. Hope the kids feel better by the weekend. I'm betting it will be OK, gives you a couple days to pump them full of chicken soup and such.
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Hopes to one day write for food.
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: In the foothills of nowhere...
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I'm afraid that's a non sequitur. Shoot the kids. That makes the most sense.
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Back in Oz. Missing France :(
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Making my own sunshine
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Ha! Thanks all.
You always make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.Off to shoot the kids! |
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Hopes to one day write for food.
Join Date: Aug 2007
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That's why we're here. To keep things sane and rational.
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Prague now, Glasgow in November
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Hope the kids get better soon, HJ. And good luck with the guests. I have a couple of months to get my place ready then I have an invasion of Norwegians coming in May. First time I've ever had house guests, for about ten years (how social am I??) so kind of dreading it and looking forward to it at the same time. So long as they don't expect me to cook.
I also want shooting though - cannot get rid of this flu of mine, and it's now turned into one of those coughs that leaves all the muscles in your stomach sore. Heading out to the shop in a minute for comfort food, which will mostly consist of chocolate (hey, it's soft and easy on the sore throat...) but then I have to do my test on the new tour tomorrow. A few more tourists should be heading home with some nasty Czech bugs though, after doing my tour, I suppose I can cling to that thought for warmth....
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The blog for work - ghosts, legends and all manner of things in Prague: McGee's Ghost Tours of Prague Latest post - Underground Prague My story "Full Moon" available here. |
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Making my own sunshine
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Zelenka, salt and vinegar potato chips are really good for a sore throat.
I hope you feel better soon. I hate that stuff that lingers.Hubby still trying to get ahold of his sister to tell her not to come. Oy. If they show up here... |
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
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That sounds a heck of a lot more appetising than some of the Czech remedies my boss has been telling me about!
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The blog for work - ghosts, legends and all manner of things in Prague: McGee's Ghost Tours of Prague Latest post - Underground Prague My story "Full Moon" available here. |
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Had a very weird thing just a while ago. I have spent the last couple of days researching the science behind my sci-fi police procedural, and ages I got the idea to have the force's base on a Lagrange point space station between Earth and the Moon, so was looking up how far exactly it'd be from Earth etc all stuff like that. In the meantime my uncle, who was formerly a chemist before he retired, is telling me that that's a load of rubbish and none of the idea would work. And then this comes up on Twitter...
http://www.popsci.com/technology/art...tion-near-moon
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The blog for work - ghosts, legends and all manner of things in Prague: McGee's Ghost Tours of Prague Latest post - Underground Prague My story "Full Moon" available here. |
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Researching History's Mysteries
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Well I'll be darned. HA! Now you are going to show this to your uncle right. Right?
Besides your writing science fiction. It doesn't have to exist yet. It's your world, I'm sure you can make it believable. Your uncle must have seen Star Trek? |
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The usual suspect
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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*sprays thread with lysol*
Hope everyone who's feeling sicky gets better soon. *hands out vitamin C-laced chocolates* *stocks up on precautionary salt and vinegar chips* HS, I sent you a reppie message but I just have say again that your cover pic is absolutely beautiful. I love that style of art. In other news. My grandson is having his 10th birthday party on Saturday. He is taking his friends ten-pin bowling and I have to make him a ten-pin bowling birthday cake. Do these challenges never end?
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Going home!
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Location: Prague now, Glasgow in November
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Only thing is they don't want their station to be like my station. My station has murders on it... Lots of murders!
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The blog for work - ghosts, legends and all manner of things in Prague: McGee's Ghost Tours of Prague Latest post - Underground Prague My story "Full Moon" available here. |
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